Summer...done...October going to be 3 amazing nights

What a summer we have had...2 very lucky guys right here...we have got to tour everywhere from just over 3 hours drive away near Preston to around 6 hours drive to Thurso. We have played some brand new places, sold loads of cd's, made a lot of new friends, and fallen in love with the small festival scene throughout the UK.

Without a doubt Beat-Herder festival (with around 15,000 there) was an amazing experience, but I cannot say enough good things about Jocktoberfest (with only 1000 there). We headlined the second stage on the second night that was the perfect setting to get the place bouncing along to our deep and dirty blues rock. We had a flamingo crowd surfing, people humping the stage with others humping the first and second humpers (yup it was a sort of human caterpillar thing, brilliant image ha ha ha), we had the loudest cheer that forced the stage manager to allow us to do just 'one more extra' tune that was an off the cuff cover we hadn't prepared, 'Have Love Will Travel' (by Richard Berry, The Sonics, The Black keys are only a couple of others who have covered it).

We will defo be on the look out for as many festivals as we can for 2016, and hopefully much more of these will be right up our street.

As we are about to enter in Autumn here in Scotland, we have just three more shows booked for 2015, with the plan to hibernate to our music den to experiment recording differing techniques before hitting a studio early next year for hopefully album number 3. Who knows though we may just pop up here or there with a guerilla gig at short notice, so please keep checking back here (facebook or twitter) for news.

The ROctober gigs are going to be in three of our favourite venues throughout Scotland. 100% pure music venues and the scenes of some amazing Dixie Fried nights before.

1. Sat. 10th Dreadnought, Bathgate
2. Sat. 17th Mad Hatters, Inverness
3. Fri. 30th King Tuts, Glasgow

Details for each gig is on our events page (click here) but these are going to be crackers for sure.

Bathgate is to support a local charity, with all door money going 100% to charity. Looking like it will be very close to a sell out. Get in touch to secure tickets or take a chance and turn up very early just to get in (around 7pm)

Inverness, what can we say about Inverness. Feels like a second home to us this year and cannot wait to get back up yet again. After Jocktoberfest at the Black Isle Brewery the messages of support and people bringing their friends to this night, yes it is going to be very very busy.

Glasgow, its a Friday night gig at King Tuts...I mean what more do you have to say. I have seen many a band at King Tuts over the years, and Friday nights are always party night. It is going to be a belter as ourselves and The River are supporting My Baby - a Dutch 3 piece whose video's show me we are going to be the perfect match of a night. And you can still get a few VERY cheap tickets on the event page.

Keep it Dixie Fried
 

Aberdeen details

*disclaimer - we know the image is not from Grampian, we just liked it*

Our next shows will be a couple of FREE ENTRY shows in Aberdeen, Scotland (not Aberdeen, Washington as the thumbnail for this shows ha ha ha) as part of the GRANITE CITY SESSIONS being run by Belhaven Brewery

We will be playing two shows on Saturday 19th September at The Globe Inn and The Holburn

(full details for each available on our events page here)

Time to get Dixie Fried our Doric speaking friends

What a weekend

What can we say about that weekend...top notch !!!!

Saturday we were lucky enough to be the closing act on the Hayloft stage at Jocktoberfest, on The Black Isle. We arrived early afternoon to soak up the atmosphere and see what was going on, and on finding out the stage we were on, immediately fell in love with the area. The whole place was just perfect. 1000 happy people of all ages, having fun, enjoying great food, top quality beer and some outstanding music from all across the spectrum.

Jocktoberfest 2015, some pics

Images came from Inverness gig guide, some people in the crowd and Dixie Fried themselves. As you can see it was a stunning location (just 15 minutes north of Inverness), and we cannot recommend it any higher. A small intimate festival that is just ran perfectly. Brilliant, just brilliant.

And anyway, I don't think we can say too many more times that we had a man dressed in a flamingo costume crowd surfing to some Dixie Fried tunes, top quality memories. Also having been forced into playing an impromptu encore be a very vocal crowd (thank you) we got to play a very old favourite once again 'Have Love Will Travel'.

Then Sunday, travelling back down back to West Lothian in glorious sunshine we got home with enough time to get shower and changed then back out to Party In The Park at Bathgate. 
Wish we had more time to have enjoyed probably our one day of summer this year, with all the live music going on and family entertainment all over Kirkton park. 

That weather was just sublime and made the park just feel even better. We have played in the wind and rain there before, and it is a little flat. But yesterday was a hive of happy voices, smiley faces and a busy busy place (maybe this was the exact opposite to Bathgate's Gala Day this summer which was under 3"of rain, or so it seemed).

Great stage crew, top quality sound and the four or five acts we were able to catch were brilliant. Hope it continues to go from strength to strength.

Next up, Aberdeen in 12 days

Keep it Dixie Fried
 

Aberdeen, in September

Just confirmed, we will be playing TWO shows in the Granite City on Saturday 19th September, as part of an Aberdeen Music Festival being run by Bellhaven Brewery.

Venues and times will be updated on our event page as soon as we can